Comments for Ah! Dharma reflections based on the words of Anyen Rinpochehttp://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog
Exploring the Innermost Essence of the Vast Compassionate HeartWed, 06 Aug 2014 01:22:33 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1Comment on The Four Noble Truths by nadinehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/anyenrinpoche_comments/~3/Jb4XvoeMAaA/
nadineWed, 06 Aug 2014 01:22:33 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125871Thank you for this offering Rinpoche! Your teachings always inspire.
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kasySat, 02 Aug 2014 21:37:32 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125654feels like you are here. thank you so much on this auspicious day. (meaning yesterday!)
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AllisonSat, 02 Aug 2014 04:07:50 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125616Happy Chokhor Duchen Rinpoche!
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Anyen rinpocheSat, 02 Aug 2014 02:35:22 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125612Very nice comments!!!
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SarahJSat, 02 Aug 2014 01:15:27 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125610Namo guru! Grateful and blessed, wish I could have been there in person to hear this teaching. You know the truth when you hear it…
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DavidFri, 01 Aug 2014 22:15:44 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=844#comment-125603Truly a blessing to read this teaching. Thank you Rinpoche for your generosity and compassion!
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Angela TsultrimSat, 05 Jul 2014 12:59:22 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=841#comment-124659That impartial love, that is what I hope for between myself and those I merely tolerate. It seems it would be so easy, especially when I see the suffering an individual is in, I.e., a patient, but not always so. I think I will be grappling with this for a very long time. Knowing that I and others are grappling is also cause for love and compassion to arise. It is so very difficult at times, it is amazing we even try.
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AllisonFri, 04 Jul 2014 23:34:12 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=841#comment-124641I think that Anyen Rinpoche gave this talk to encourage each member of the sangha to love and support each other. As Rinpoche has said numerous times to all of us, it is up to us to take care of each other. This is the goal of Bodhichitta: impartial love that goes beyond individual personalities.

The sangha and the center is the place where we get to practice putting Bodhichitta into action. This should directly translate to us being willing–or at least cultivating that willingness– to embody Bodhichitta ourselves. We might think, what can we do to express Bodhichitta around the center? There are so many small things we can do. More experienced students can take the time and energy to offer guidance and support to students who need help. And students who need help, support or friendship can be open to receiving it. Angela’s comment focused on this aspect of Rinpoche’s talk, and discussed how it could be a difficult, judged or painful experience–but we could also see it as a beautiful, organic cycle of pitching in and taking care of one and other in the spirit of Bodhichitta. This is what Rinpoche expressed in his talk, and what he has always pushed me to do, personally.

In this same spirit of Bodhichitta, we can greet new folks who walk into the center for the first time and make them feel comfortable. When we see someone needs a friend, we can put aside feelings of shyness and put the other person’s feelings of comfort before our own. We can lend a hand around the center when it is needed. We can be willing to work through personal fears and insecurities in order to open up and be a contributing part of the group. It can be difficult to get in the habit of getting out of our normal pattern. We are often used to staying isolated in order to protect ourselves from fears and worries. But it can also feel great not to be bound or limited by something we thought we couldn’t do.

Actually, we all have so much in common. We all want to feel the relief of loving and being loved. And, we all bring personal issues, and our past experiences, with us to the dharma. Even that is something we share. It can be healing to reflect on what we have in common, rather than investing energy in feeling different.

I think the true goal of Rinpoche’s talk was to push us each to get out of our comfort zones and to be open to connecting with everyone who walks through the door of the center, and all members of our sangha family. It can be easy for all of us to stick with the people we know best or feel we have the most in common with, but again, that is not the goal of Bodhichitta. The goal of Bodhichitta is to find a way to love and connect with everyone. It is good to recognize that we all have a common goal, we are all on the same team, and that mutual love and support is actually possible. We are not perfect, and we are a work in progress, but it is wonderful for us to get out there and try. Even though we may fall short at times, we can learn from the experience, and try again.

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Angela TsultrimFri, 04 Jul 2014 18:38:34 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=841#comment-124627This is really true and helpful. I find getting hooked by expectations is the hardest thing to cetch. I can tell myself over and over not to get hooked but doesn’t always work. When it comes to connecting with those who are of a higher caliber then myself I find I have to overcome the fear of judgement I think they are having towards me. Maybe they are, maybe they are not, who can say, but I am pretty good at detecting when my company is being merely tolerated and not enjoyed simply because I have experience with tolerating others by being in the medical field. There are simply just those patients that you cannot wait to get out of their room. I know my habit is I would rather be alone then burden someones mind by having them have to tolerate me. It is actually something I have thought about for awhile, which is, when does a bodhisattva or bodhisattva-in-training stand in the presence of love with others and not just put up with them because they are suppose to? Is that something we will be grappling with up until level 10? I mean, I am sure tolerance is some form of patience but it sure does not feel so great when one is on the receiving end of it. I guess the best thing out of it is when it does happen to me I make an inner promise not to ever do it again to others and really work on being present and open.
Another quandry is if is good for a lower quality student to mix with a higher quality student, is that highr quality student concerned that the lower quality student will have some effect on him or her? And/or should they be? I am gathering that higher quality student has some equanimity under his or her belt but then if not, that leads me back to just being tolerated again. Hmm…
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ChrisFri, 04 Jul 2014 18:21:30 +0000http://www.anyenrinpoche.com/blog/?p=841#comment-124626This has been verified by neuroscientists in the study of mirror neurons, c.f., A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, M.D., et al.
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